CVE-2020-5741

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: May 8, 2020
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Reserved: Jan 6, 2020

Description

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Plex Media Server on Windows allows a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary Python code.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Plex Media Server (Windows)n/a	Versions prior to 1.19.3Affected

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-32
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158470/Plex-Unpickle-Dict-Windows-Remote-Code-Execution.html
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-5741government-resource

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